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Hole One a New See Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Far cry

I found a logical explanation for this expression in dictionaries, but I'm curious about something else. Let's imagine a situation like this (2 students talk to each other):

- I have to learn through the whole night in order to pass the exam.
- It is a far cry, bro. You should had to begin learning much sooner. You will certainly fail the exam.

So the meanings is something like: now it is too late to do something.

Can it be something like this? I didn't find it in dictionaries, I just remember for my teacher's sentence fuzzily. By the way, I think that I remember wrongly.

Thanks for your answer in advance
  

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Hello there. Actually, far cry is idiomatic and means "very different from something". I don't see the similarity in your example.

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  • Hello there.
  • Actually, far cry is idiomatic and means "very different from something".
  • I don't see the similarity in your example.
  • That's the way I would say it.
  • - I have to learn through the whole night in order to pass the exam.
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Hello there. Actually, far cry is idiomatic and means "very different from something". I don't see the similarity in your example.

That's the way I would say it.

- I have to learn through the whole night in order to pass the exam.
- It is a wasted try, bro. You should have started learning much earlier. You will certainly fail the exam.

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With my sentence (I quote myself) I tried to refer to the fact, I found the meaning that you just wrote:

I found a logical explanation for this expression in dictionaries, but I'm curious about something else.
Then it is possible, the mentioned one (my version) doesn't exist (at least it more and more certain).
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So the meanings is something like: now it is too late to do something.
You've found the logical explanation. Still, you've come to a wrong conclusion because the "far cry' doesn't seem to fit at all.
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But I didn't try to use the explanation of the dictionary... (As I mentioned before. Maybe I wasn't exact enough).

My situation is only based the sentence that my teacher said (possibly, it was long ago, so I don't remamber his sentence exactly). And I didn't find that in the dictionary. THAT was the reason why asked about that.

But you gave me the answer (which is the fact: the
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